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If he decides the replacement was wrong and sacks Roeder and then appoints someone who, in your opinion is also not correct, does that mean he should "consider his position" or does that venture into 'Shepherd Out' territory in your opinion?

They were utterly fucking dire, relegation certainties for sure. We played well the first half, but couldn't make it count - just like at Boro we ran out of ideas and ran out of steam. That's probably the easiest game we're going to have all season, and decent performance or no we're going to be in serious shit if we can't get three points out of those fixtures. Special mention for Ace Detective Dicknose, the fucking clueless arsehole copper who parked his huge fucking meat wagon in the bottleneck outside the East Stand causing a huge crush after full time, then put his blue lights on and tried to plow through everyone to get out. Well done son, OBE coming your way you fucking cunt end.

Even we can beat these useless bastards. Having said that, they've not picked up a point away from home yet this season. And you know what happenes when a team have got a monkey to get of their back and come up against us...

Errr, I was in a definite minority when being slated for saying I thought Fred shouldn't give Souness a penny in that January transfer window. I don't recall you backing me up on that one at the time. Are you now saying I was right? Edited to add some more above - Yes, you were right. Freddy was wrong, as usual. The actual correct response would have been to sack Souness, as well as not giving him a penny, but at least the latter would have been preferable. But I don't think having a shite manager and no players would have got us anywhere either. Of course if he was going to stick with Souness for the duration of his contract, like he was pretending at the time, he might as well have given him cash. Backing him and sacking him was possibly the worst thing he could have done, however. A balls up of Shepherd-style proportions.

I'm making note of people who think when someone like Souness comes and asks for £8m for Boumsong the correct answer is "Sure, here you go!" rather than "Get to fuck, wait a minute, I should have sacked you months ago and actually I should never have given you the job in the first place". I guess if Freddy appointed Howard Wilkinson and let him spend obscene amounts of money on shite players and wasters, this would be being an excellent, top notch, manager backing chairman as well. It's not like I was asking Shepherd to make an exception by meddling in managers business by not thowing money at the Souness problem. He did it anyway. he just could have done it right, rather than wrong.

Did we ever get official confirmation of what his long term injury was? Could this be a euphamism for somethign as well?

http://www.sligoheritage.com/images/paisley.jpg Ulster says NO to shoes off!

No I wouldn't, because if you remember I never claimed that Souness had the mental capacity to make any kind of judgement, especially on the Bellamy matter.

£50 million isn't unlimited, but it's a lot closer to it than anyone with more brain in their head than lard would have given him. Giving Graeme Souness that much money isn't being a good chairman and backing your manager, it's being taken for a complete and utter mug.

He's got some abandoned shack in Gibralter he apparently "operates from" for tax purposes, and he's a "worldwide club publicity agent" or some such nonsense, which I presume means leaving a few business cards around seedy bankok clubs. That's about the limit of what he brings to the club AFAIK.

While backed on it 100% by the Fat One, don't forget

That's because he plays football like an octopus falling out of a tree.

"OW MAN TITUS, I TOLD YOU TO WARN ME WHERE YOU WERE ALMOST THERE!"

It was considerably worse than the holocaust and I can only apologise - we should go back to friendly banter about rape like those jolly smoggies at St James (I'd forgotten that was them!)

Did you laugh your heads off, or are they both still attached?

When I was half asleep and Five Live came on as my alarm this morning they listed the clubs that had made it through to the next round and I'm sure they mentioned Porthsmouth. Maybe it was a premonition. Or maybe they said Port Vale.

When I was last over in the post-apocalyptic wastes of Teeside "Stand up if your shag your kids" was sung when we were sitting down and the Boro fans had started a half arsed chorus of "Stand up if you hate Geordies". BTW, I don't like this "Small town in Yorkshire" chant to be honest, a small town in Cleveland is much more insulting - I'd imagine they'd love to be part of Yorkshire.

Remember banning the toon fans from wearing dust masks "In case people thought there was a terrorist attack" :roll: Maybe that's why they called it off a few seasons ago, in case people thought those 5 snowflakes were anthrax.

Will people have the bollocks to turn up in numbers at Official Mong Day for the unveiling and chant Shepherd Out rather than "There's only one David Beckham, we love you Freddy mwah mwah" Edit: A chant of "Do we look like fucking mugs" to the tune of "You're not singing any more" might get the point across better. If anyone's nabbed by the media on the exciting prospect of a Beckham signing look straight into the camera and say "Posh, if you're watching, it's just like you've heard up here. It's freezing cold, we all own whippets and work down pit, there's no clothes shops and we don't even have electricity. You're better off in Spain, pet."

I can imagine Fred signing Johnny Wilkinson for that.

Me, yesterday at 12:13:35 PM

Most of the chants are probably obscured by the cheerleaders, drowned out by the goal-point music or deflected by the foam hands tbh.

A Freddy Out banner will just result in the sack for Roeder and spending our defender fund on Beckham. It would have to be a big banner saying "Freddy out, and no appointing Shearer and signing Beckham won't cut it"

Nowhere near as disgusting as the sickening accusation that we're your local derby. You should be ashamed.

Very muted reaction to the appointment, looking back. http://www.newcastle-online.com/nufcforum/index.php/topic,19310.0.html Of course there were a few people who'd been hitting the prozac.